During a routine audit last March of Dawn Anderson, a broker in Maricopa, officials with the Arizona Department of Real Estate detected a $280,000 shortfall in her residential property management firm’s trust account.

Anderson allegedly used the account — intended for holding clients’ security deposits, rent money and maintenance reserves as required under state law — for various business expenses, even vacations at Turtle Bay Resort in Hawaii.

The ADRE has since stripped Anderson of her broker’s license and fined her. She also has been indicted by a state grand jury.